This month a wonderful thing happened. My tv provider - Spectrum - was finally added to WatchTCM!!!! Which means I no longer have to dvr every movie I want to watch on TCM and can discover movies that I would have originally passed over!
Another awesome discover was scans of Old Hollywood Photoplay magazines! I've made a separate page for them at the top of my blog where I linking them in chronological order. Check it out!
- The Beast of the City (1932) - Walter Huston, Jean Harlow
- Brief Moment (1933) - Carole Lombard
- The Gay Bride (1934) - Carole Lombard & Chester Morris
- Love, Honor and Behave (1938) - Wayne Morris & Priscilla Lane
- Topper Returns (1941) - Roland Young, Carole Landis, Joan Blondell, Billie Burke, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
- Out of the Fog (1941) - John Garfield & Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
- The Mysterious Doctor (1943) - John Loder, Eleanor Parker
- Dead Men Walk (1943) - George Zucco
- The Unsuspected (1947) - Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett
- The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) - Harold Lloyd
- State of the Union (1948) - Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn, Angela Lansbury, Van Johnson, Adolph Menjeu
- At Sword's Point (1951) - Maureen O'Hara
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) - William Holden & Eleanor Parker
- Code Two (1953) - Ralph Meeker, Keenan Wynn
- It Should Happen to You (1953) - Judy Holliday & Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford
- Phffft! (1954) - Judy Holliday & Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak
- Miracle in the Rain (1956) - Jane Wyman & Van Johnson
- A Hole in the Head (1959) - Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Thelma Ritter, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones
- The Scapegoat (1959) - Alec Guinness
- Murder She Said (1961) - Margaret Rutherford (based on 4:50 From Paddington, which I've read)
- Cairo (1963) - George Sanders
- Spencer's Mountain (1963) - Henry Fonda & Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur
- *Ride the Wild Surf (1964) - Fabian, Tab Hunter, Shelley Fabares
- The Nanny (1965) - Bette Davis
- Walk Don't Run (1966) - Cary Grant, Jim Hutton, Samantha Eggar
- Titanic (1997) - Kate Winslet & Leonardo DiCaprio (first time watching!)
- The Cobbler (2014) - Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman
- Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Emma Watson & Dan Stevens (better than I expected)
Favorite Film: Hands down It Should Happen to You (1953) followed closely by Phffft! (1954). Walk Don't Run ended up better than I thought. It doesn't compare to the original of course but I still enjoyed it and wouldn't mind owning it on DVD (and btw, Cary Grant is more physically appealing at 62 then Jim Hutton is at 32). I also enjoyed The Unsuspected, Topper Returns, and Miracle in the Rain (which made me cry).
Lombard in The Gay Bride (1934). I took way too many screenshots from this movie.
You hadn't seen Titanic before? What did you think of it? I used to really like it, but I don't like it so much any more. Beauty and the Beast was a lot better then I thought it was going to be!! It made it's way on to my top five favorites list! What did you think of it?
ReplyDeleteI thought Sept. was going to be a good movie watching month for me, but I only saw seven new to me movies! But, I had a lot of work that I had to do. But, this month will be better! (I know I've said that for the last few months, but I really mean it this time!)
I've always loved learning about the Titanic and was afraid watching the movie would "ruin" it for me. I enjoyed it and it was so much more than I thought it would be but I'll never be obsessed with it like some people are.
DeleteI've only seen the original Beauty and the Beast three or four times in my life so I wasn't upset like some were when they announced they were making it. I thought they stayed very true to the original. I will definitely watch it again. The only problem was I had some of the songs stuck in my head for days!!
September was a terrible movie watching month for me but I did manage to watch Lombard's films. She was stunning even if the movies are somewhat forgettable. I love Lemmon And Holliday together and wish they had made more films together.
ReplyDeleteI've definitely had months like that. In Brief Moment I was just like, really Carole? Leave that loser already! The Gay Bride was a very Lombard performance and that alone makes it worth the watch. I had already seen the other Lombard films TCM showed that night.
DeleteI wish they would have too! For both of those movies I just wanted to watch them again the next day :)
The Beast of the City is a favourite of mine, and (emotional whiplash) so is Miracle in the Rain. I love George Zucco so I just have to love Dead Men Walk.
ReplyDeleteLove it in The Unsuspected when Audrey Totter says Joan Caulfield "drank too much milk and her seams were always straight".
I didn't care much for Phffft! the only time I watched it, but if you found something redeemable then I will give it another chance someday.